WORKSHOPS




ARABESQUE &

GEOMETRY PATTERNS

 

MUSEUMS & SCHOOL EVENTS

 

STONE CARVING


CALLIGRAPHY


PAINT ALCHEMY
& GILDING

    
Workshops taught by the team are based on traditional skills which acts as a foundation for creativity and expression. As a working artists the team bring practical experience to the workshops.

Classes are available to all ages and abilities from PHD students to primary school children. 
Workshops, presentations and public lectures have been given at many of the leading cultural and educational institutions in the UK and beyond, including:-

The British Museum, The British Library, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Shakespeare's Globe, The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, Asia House, Cambridge University and Zaytuna College, Berkeley, USA.








TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Arabesque 19th January 2009
11 week class's, Mondays, Asia House, Mayfair, London

British Museum, 1st - 3rd July 2009                                                                                                                Calligraphy workshops in 3 different schools, 8 class's in each school.

British Library. 7th May 2007

Sacred Ways, workshop painting a large mural in the courtyard of BL with the help of the visiting public.


South Camden School. 20-22nd October 2008
Mural Painting workshop


South Camden School. 16-17th July 2008
2 day Stone carving totem pole workshop

Buckingham School. 23rd June 2008
2 day stone carving African masks workshop



Raines School, Bethnal Green, London. 18th March 2009
1 day geometry of structure workshop with a maths class.

Girls community group, Civic centre, Harrow, 23rd January 2009
Evening Geometry workshop

Reading Museum. 26th May 2007
1 day Calligraphic workshop.

Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Birmingham - 17 February 2008
Geometry workshop with Bosnian group.

Prince’s School of Traditional art, London. 2004,2005,2006,2007,2008
Annual PhD and MA Week long courses in Islimi.


Sir William Ramsay School, Buckinghamshire 9,10,12thth July 2007
3 day Islamic geometry and stonecarving workshop with pupils from the school.


Birkbeck, Worlds Arts and Artefacts programme. May/June 2007

Guest lecturer on the Richard Henry course Islamic Geometric Art: Persian Patterns. Taught two week module in Islimi (Arabesque)

Kidbrook School. 16,17thth July 2007

2 day gilding workshop

Shakespeare's Globe, Southbank. 22nd November, 2004
1 day art workshop

Plashet, Little Ilford, Forest Gate and Kingsford Schools, East London. 6,8,9th and 10th January, 2007
4-day stone carving workshop

City Hall  ‘Eid in the Square’ Trafalgar Square, London. 28th October 2007
1 day Islamic art workshop, large mural in Trafalgar Square with the help of the visiting public.

Khrishnamurti School, Winchester. 8th - 11th 2005
Arabesque workshops with A-level students

Steiner School, Newcastle, Australia. October-January 2004/24th November-10th January 2005
2 full-time teaching residences in Islamic art, stone carving, gilding and Calligraphy

Kandis Resource centre. January 2006
Paint alchemy workshop taught to woodcarving masters in Malaysian jungle for documentary. Kelantan, Malaysia 2006